Category: Health & Medicine

Philosophy of Osteopathy

Not a Work of Compilation--Authors Quoted--Method of Reasoning--The Osteopath an Artist--When I Became an Osteopath--Dr. Neal's Opinion--The Opinions of Others--What Studies Necessary--What I Mean by Anatomy--Principles--The Practicing Osteopath's Guide--The Fascia--Not a plea...

Chapters

25. Chapter 25

Where Confined--Consumption--Can Consumption Be Cured--Consumption Described--No Time for Surrender--Cerebral Spinal Fluid--How to Destroy Deadly Bombs of Decay--Battle of Blood...

27. Chapter 27

Investigation--A Struggle With Nature--Lesson of Cause and Effect--Something of Medical Etiquette--The Medical Doctor--An Explorer for Truth Must Be Independent--The Diaphragm I...

21. Chapter 21

Not a Work of Compilation--Authors Quoted--Method of Reasoning--The Osteopath an Artist--When I Became an Osteopath--Dr. Neal's Opinion--The Opinions of Others--What Studies Nec...

37. Chapter 37

When in the course of human events and actions of life, a woman disregards the laws of nature to such an extent as to overload the stomach beyond its powers and limits; or anoth...

24. Chapter 24

Nature Makes Nothing in Vain--A Successful Experiment--A Question for Ages--The Position--Meaning of Life--Some Questions Asked--Condition in Certain Diseases Caused by Cold--Ce...

31. Chapter 31

Be Armed With Facts--Union of Human Gases With Oxygen--Fever and Nettle-rash. Nature Constructs for a Wise Purpose--Processes of Life Must be Kept in Motion--No Satisfaction fro...

22. Chapter 22

After many long years, treating and trying to teach the student of Osteopathy how to hunt for and find the local causes of diseases, not contagious, or infectious, I have succee...

30. Chapter 30

Disease is evidently sown as atoms of gas fluids, or solids. A suitable place is necessary first to deposit the active principle of life, be that what it may. Then a responsive...

29. Chapter 29

Uses for Fluids--Blood an Unknown Fluid--Harvey Only Reached the Banks of the River of Life--Blood Is Systematically Furnished--Fatality of Ignorance--To Find the Cause Must Be...

40. Chapter 40

Every ganglion on the great chain of the sympathetic nerve has special and important functions, but upon the superior cervical falls the greatest burden of responsibility. This...

36. Chapter 36

At the present time more than at any other period since the birth of Christ, the medical and surgical world have centralized their minds for the purpose of relieving locally ins...

28. Chapter 28

Gender of the Liver--Productions of the Liver--A Hope for the Afflicted--Evidences of Truth--Loaded With Ignorance--Lack of Knowledge of the Kidney--How a Purgative Acts--Flux--...

26. Chapter 26

Possibly less is known of the lymphatics than any other division of the life-sustaining machinery of man. Thus ignorance of that division is equal to a total blank with the oper...

34. Chapter 34

The exact time when man's foot appeared on the earth, no record shows. A knowledge of his advent might be profitable. The unwritten history of the human races with the genius or...

35. Chapter 35

The five points of observation will cover easily the whole body, and we cannot omit any one of them, and successfully examine any disease of the system. Local injuries are, howe...

23. Chapter 23

Before we treat of the head, we must follow blood from the heart to all organs of the head. Not only look at the pictures in Gray, Morris, Gerrish, or some finely illustrated wo...

33. Chapter 33

Wonders are daily callers, and seem greatly on the increase during the Eighteenth century. As we read history we learn that no one hundred years of the past has produced wonders...

38. Chapter 38

Old Phrases--Results of Stoppage of Fluids--Old Theory of Fits--What the Real Cause may be--Listen for the Cause--What is a Fit--Sensory System Demanding Nourishment--The Causes...

39. Chapter 39

"Let us not forget the assembling of ourselves together." Whether this quotation applies to us or not, as an Osteopath I will venture to say that the honored dead, and the hones...

32. Chapter 32

"Scarlet fever begins with a short period of tired feeling. A short period of chilly sensation, fullness of eyes and sore throat. In a few hours fever begins with great heat of...

5. Chapter 5

Where Confined--Consumption--Can Consumption Be Cured--Consumption Described--No Time for Surrender--Cerebral Spinal Fluid--How to Destroy Deadly Bombs of Decay--Battle of Blood...

7. Chapter 7

Investigation--A Struggle With Nature--Lesson of Cause and Effect--Something of Medical Etiquette--The Medical Doctor--An Explorer for Truth Must Be Independent--The Diaphragm I...

1. Chapter 1

Not a Work of Compilation--Authors Quoted--Method of Reasoning--The Osteopath an Artist--When I Became an Osteopath--Dr. Neal's Opinion--The Opinions of Others--What Studies Nec...

4. Chapter 4

Nature Makes Nothing in Vain--A Successful Experiment--A Question for Ages--The Position--Meaning of Life--Some Questions Asked--Condition in Certain Diseases Caused by Cold--Ce...

9. Chapter 9

Uses for Fluids--Blood an Unknown Fluid--Harvey Only Reached the Banks of the River of Life--Blood Is Systematically Furnished--Fatality of Ignorance--To Find the Cause Must Be...

11. Chapter 11

Be Armed With Facts--Union of Human Gases With Oxygen--Fever and Nettle-rash. Nature Constructs for a Wise Purpose--Processes of Life Must be Kept in Motion--No Satisfaction fro...

8. Chapter 8

Gender of the Liver--Productions of the Liver--A Hope for the Afflicted--Evidences of Truth--Loaded With Ignorance--Lack of Knowledge of the Kidney--How a Purgative Acts--Flux--...

13. Chapter 13

Wonders on the Increase--What Is Life?--How Is Action Produced--Acquaint Yourself With the Machinery--Duty of the Osteopath--Formation of Sacrum--The Pelvis--Appearance of OEdem...

18. Chapter 18

Old Phrases--Results of Stoppage of Fluids--Old Theory of Fits--What the Real Cause may be--Listen for the Cause--What is a Fit--Sensory System Demanding Nourishment--The Causes...

14. Chapter 14

The Advent of Man--Care of the Stock Raiser--Mental Degeneration Makes It Unpleasant for an Original Thinker--Original Thinkers of the Ancients--Methods of Healing--Failure of A...

10. Chapter 10

Where Is Disease Sown?--An Illustration of Conception--The Greatest Problem--A Fountain of Supply--Fascia Omnipresent--Connection with Spinal Cord--Goes With and Covers All Musc...

17. Chapter 17

Overloading--Similarity of Stomach and Womb--Births--Preparation for Delivery--Caution--Lasceration Need Not Occur--Care of Cord--Severing Cord--Putting on Belly Band--Delivery...

2. Chapter 2

6. Chapter 6

16. Chapter 16

12. Chapter 12

20. Chapter 20

3. Chapter 3

15. Chapter 15

19. Chapter 19